The Newton Boys Page #5

Do youfollow me?

-Yeah, OK.

-Uh-huh.

How about it?

Hmm...

[Jazz music playing]

WOMAN:
I thought you boys said

you were oilmen.

DOCK:
Oh! Now,that's a lie!

You hear about those two banks

in Hondo,Texas?

JESS:
We did that.

He robbed one,

I robbed the other.

We went in there, and I said

let's get 'em both.

Hell,yeah, and

God damn you, Uncle Sam!

-I am a veteran!

-All right, come on.

-I fought them single-handed.

-My brother,the war hero.

-Hell,yeah.

-Never got out of camp--

JESS:
Don't interrupt!

I can outdrink, outride...

and outrope any member

of this congregation...

and I'll lick any man

that says different.

And I will lick you

if you say different.

[Music continues]

MAN:
26 to 3,220.

Twenty to me.

Ninety-four, ninety-five.

Well, hell,yeah,

there's a pattern.

One--they've all been robbed...

and two--

my company had to pay out.

ALDRlCH:
And now it's

up to the federal government...

to bail you out.

Right?

Square-door safes

blown with precision.

No rough stuff.

Couple of men outside

for security.

And the few watchmen

they've taken...

say they're a bunch of "please

and thank you" country boys.

MAN:
If I got that much money

in two years...

I'd say thank you,too.

HaIf these banks are clipping

the association...

for a hell of a lot more

than was stolen.

Damn bankers think

it's a license to steal...

now that they're all insured.

You ought to just double

the premiums...

on any bank that won't

springfor a round safe.

MAN:
That's justfine.

ln the meantime...

what is my government

gonna do about this bunch?

We're after 'em...

and when we catch 'em...

we're gonna put 'em away.

JESS:
Are we there yet?

JOE:

Go back to sleep. You're next.

So how'd we do anyway?

WlLLlS:

I don't know. We done better.

We'll count it in the morning.

JOE:

All right. Get some sleep.

WlLLlS:
Night, boys.

SLlM:
Willis Newton.

If it ain't my old partner.

Seems you done all right

after we parted company.

Got yourseIf

a top-notch crew and all.

WlLLlS:
No,the only crew

I got's drillingfor oil.

So how the hell are you?

SLlM:
Can't complain.

Thought we might talk

a little business.

So where you working

these days?

SLlM:
Chicago.

Things are hopping there.

The bigfix is in--

cops, politicians,judges.

Hell,they even bought

the World Series.

Boy,you must be in heaven.

SLlM:
Put you boys onto some

sweet business opportunities.

We have a mutual friend--Murray.

One of your laundry fellas.

Well, I tell you, Slim...

those days are pretty much

overfor me...

but I do appreciate the offer.

Yeah.

Well, if for any reason...

things don't turn out

how youfigured...

look me up in Chicago.

[Door closes]

LOUlSE:
There was some creep

outside earlier...

who wanted to talk to you.

That's just some old guy

I knew way back when.

What are you doing

sitting in the dark?

Hey,what's the matter?

What's wrong, baby?

LOUlSE:

Willis, do you trust me?

WlLLlS:
Whoa,

now tell me what happened.

Did he say something

to upset you?

LOUlSE:

No. I went to the bank today...

to put your business things

in the deposit box.

I didn't want to fold up

the oil lease papers...

but the box was too small

so I opened it up...

and,Willis,there was

so much money in there.

I know you haven't made

any money in oil yet...

and you can't be winning

that kind of money gambling.

And I've seen you sign in

at these hotels...

under all these

different names--

Reed, Rogers.

And I found something

in your jacket...

that said your name was Newton.

Reed isn't your name, is it?

WlLLlS:
Why, Lou?

LOUlSE:
I don't even know

your real name?

WlLLlS:
I don't see

how that matters much.

You know that's just

a part of my business.

LOUlSE:
Am I just

a part of your business?

-I didn't say that.

-What is your business?

WlLLlS:

You know what my business is.

LOUlSE:
I don't think I do.

Anyway, I put all that money

in a savings account.

WlLLlS:
You what?

LOUlSE:
It's too much money

to just be put in a box.

WlLLlS:
No. No. No.

You really shouldn't

have done that, honey.

LOUlSE:
Why not?

The deposit box is in my name.

You put the car in my name.

When it comes to money,

you do what I tell you.

If it's going to be in my name,

I think I have a right.

WlLLlS:
I got that money

from a bank robbery.

Are you happy now?

A savings account?

Are you trying to get me

thrown in the pen?

They can track that stuff, Lou!

You're a bank robber?!

My God!

I'm in love with you!

A bank robber!

And a big liar!

Don't act like I'm the only one

telling stories around here.

What?

What? Like Lewis' daddy

being killed in the war.

He's still kicking around

and you're still married.

You don't know anything

about my life.

No, I don't,

and you weren't gonna tell me.

I'm not stealingfrom anyone

or almost getting myseIf killed.

WlLLlS:
Goddamn it, Lou.

I was born into nothing...

and nobody ever gave me nothing.

It's real simple.

You do what you gotta do

and I do what I gotta do.

But you're a bank robber.

Yeah.

I rob banks.

That is what I do.

And it's what

I'm gonna keep doing...

until I make enough money

from my oil business.

Louise...

I love you.

I want to be together

all the time.

When I think about us

I am thinking aboutforever.

Then why didn't you tell me?

'Cause I was afraid

you'd leave me if youfound out.

LOUlSE:

I wouldn't have left you.

See, no matter how much money

you have...

you've got nothing if you can't

trust someone close to you.

Yeah.

I'll tell you what.

This next trip

we're going up to Toronto...

and I want you to come with me.

What?

I'm in love with a man,

and I don't even know his name.

-You do,too.

-No, I don't.

Name's Mr. Newton...

and you are my Mrs. Newton.

[Whistle blows]

[Whistle blows]

The guns go down under here.

Put 'em under a douche bag

and Customs won't touch it.

What about the nitroglycerin?

Do you carry that,too?

No.

Do you ever get afraid?

I mean,what if they get caught?

That's not a lucky question.

WOMAN:
Ahem.

JOE:
Evening, ma'am.

[Train bell ringing]

JESS:
[Singing]

Mary had a little lamb.

Daddy killed it dead.

DOCK AND JESS:
Now it goes

to school with her...

Between two chunks of bread.

Do do do...

WlLLlS:
What?

GLASSCOCK:

Mosler is 11 inches thick.

JESS:
She's shabby,

shot, and short,too...

GLASSCOCK:
When I started out,

you could punch...

through a vault door

with a jimmy bar.

Could they not sing?

JESS:
Lulu lou...

DOCK:
Cuckoo coo.

GLASSCOCK:
Gonna take a lot

of explosive to blow that.

WlLLlS:
That's all right.

We've got

a hell of a lot of explosives.

GLASSCOCK:
Can I be brutally

honest with you,Willis?

WlLLlS:
Shoot, Glass.

[Jess gargles]

GLASSCOCK:
Never mind.

[Explosion]

JESS:
Damn.

DOCK:
Son of a b*tch

looks 11 inches thick to me.

[Coughs]

WlLLlS:

What the hell have we got here?

JOE:
How do you get that open?

GLASSCOCK:
You don't.

A month ago,

they didn't have a round safe.

These are worthless.

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